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TCI Precision Metals offers custom, precision, machine-ready blanks, eliminating prep work for end users. Using customer-provided data and simulation software, the company has calculated that using the blanks can provide shops with as much as a 25 percent increase in capacity, as it eliminates the time and resources required to prepare machine-ready material to spec from rough stock…

TCI Precision Metals ships custom, precision Machine-Ready Blanks throughout the U.S., saving shop owners time and money, while increasing production capacity by 25% or more. Machine-Ready Blanks are ready to be placed directly onto the customer’s machining centers, eliminating time consuming prep work…

TCI Precision Metals ships custom, precision Machine-Ready Blanks throughout the U.S., saving shop owners time and money, while increasing production capacity by 25% or more. Machine-Ready Blanks are ready to be placed directly onto the customer’s machining centers, eliminating time-consuming prep work…

If you missed the IMTS 2012 Conference presentation by John Belzer, president, TCI Precision Metals, here is your chance to view it now…

TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, CA, has beefed up its equipment list…

Page 24: TCI Precision Metals, Gardenia, California, recently announced the installation of its second large format horizontal boring mill and a vertical turning center (VTL). Both pieces of equipment are in response to increased customer demand…

John Belzer, president, TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, Calif., has agreed to fill a vacancy on the NTMA executive team effective through March 2013…

TCI Precision Metals announce the installation of its second large format horizontal boring mill and a vertical turning center (VTL), in response to increased customer demand for medium to large machined parts…

TCI Precision Metals will be showing its high precision machine-ready blanks capabilities to injection moldmaking customers…

TCI Precision Metals will be showing its high precision machine-ready blanks capabilities to injection moldmaking customers…

What is the highest-value work your machine tools do—roughing or finishing? I suspect you would say finishing…

What is the highest-value work your machine tools do—roughing or finishing? I suspect you would say finishing…

Job shops and manufacturers are facing operational challenges involving throughput, efficiency, cost control, and more…

Machine-ready blanks from TCI can be loaded directly into CNC machining centers, without the need for sawing, grinding, flattening and squaring.

Enhancing its “good parts, on time” motto, TCI Precision Metals recently purchased a heavy-duty, high-precision Hyundai-Kia KBN135…

TCI Precision Metals has recently installed a new Horizontal Machining Center, the heavy duty, high precision Hyundai-Kia KBN135. The machine is a four-axis horizontal boring mill designed to handle large part requirements quickly and efficiently, with precision…

Installation is complete for TCI Precision Metals’ new horizontal machining center, the heavy duty, high precision Hyundai-Kia KBN135. The machine is a four-axis horizontal boring mill designed to handle large part requirements quickly and efficiently, with precision…

Machine-ready blanks enable production to start immediately, the company says…

TCI Precision Metals announced the availability of Titanium Machine-Ready Blanks that cut the overall cost of producing parts. The titanium Machine-Ready Blanks are available in custom sizes from plate to forged block. TCI routinely supplies Machine-Ready Titanium Blanks for the aerospace/defense and medical communities and is certified to AS 9100B, one of the aerospace industry’s highest standards…

TCI Precision Metals (TCI), announced that TCI hosted over 130 members and friends of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (LA/NTMA) . The attendees heard California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner speak about the crucial need to cut personal and business taxes to improve and maintain a healthy economy, as well as job creation and quality of life. With the economy showing few signs of improvement and the threat of more and higher taxes, the message resonated well with members….

Steve Poizner, California’s Insurance Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate for 2010, visited TCI. He was invited to speak on behalf of the LA Chapter of the NTMA.

While trimming labor costs is difficult and sometimes personal, it has become a necessity to compete in today’s worldwide economy. Typically, reducing labor costs, which are the largest portion of a shop’s costs, requires an upfront capital investment in new machinery or processes…

According to the company, its machine-ready blanks reduce overall part costs. They can be loaded directly into the machine without prep operations, which include sawing, grinding, flattening or squaring. Additionally, machine-ready blanks are said to require less time for adjusting setups and fixture offsets. By ending prep time and minimizing setup time, operators and machines are more productive, which increases throughput capacity, the company says…

Machine-ready blanks have been available for decades, yet mold manufacturers have been slow to adopt them, even though they can save as much as 30 percent off overall mold and mold component costs and free up machine time for creating more in-house capacity…

Here are a baker’s dozen benefits that can be gained by using pre-cut blanks in machine shops…

TCI Precision Metals, a leading supplier of machine-ready blanks, has announced that it will demonstrate how purchasing machine-ready blanks can allow dramatic reductions in the cost of labor, leading to lower overall part costs and greater operational efficiency, the company said…

TCI Precision Metals (Gardena, CA) will demonstrate how purchasing machine-ready blanks allows dramatic reductions in the cost of labor, leading to lower overall part costs and greater operational efficiency at IMTS. Machine-ready blanks allow production to start immediately (e.g.,. load blanks directly into the machine without prep operations, including sawing, grinding, flattening or squaring)…

The company says its machine-ready blanks offer reductions in labor costs, leading to lower overall part costs and greater operational efficiency…

TCI Precision Metals offers machine-ready blanks, which reduce the cost of labor by 20 percent, leading to 15 percent lower part costs and greater operational efficiency, the company says. If the time of the machine freed up for additional jobs is considered, the total value often exceeds 30 percent, according to the company. Machine-ready blanks allow production to start immediately…

Buying raw stock might allow shops to shave as much as 10 percent off the cost of materials, but that results in less than a 1-percent savings on overall part cost, according to John Belzer, president of TCI Precision Metals (www.tciprecision.com)…

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